Curriculum Vitae Faisal Devji University Reader in Modern South Asian History St. Antony’s College University of Oxford 62 Woodstock Road Oxford, OX2 6JF Education

University of Chicago Department of History, MA 1987, PhD 1994 University of British Columbia BA (Double Honors) Departments of Anthropology and History, 1986

Academic Positions

Faculty Member, School of Criticism and Theory, Cornell University, June-July 2017 Yves Oltramane Chair, Graduate Institute, Geneva, 2013-14 Visiting Fellow, Institute for Human Sciences, Vienna, May-September 2009 Associate Professor of History, The New School, 2006-9 Assistant Professor of History, The New School, 2005-6

Singh Visiting Lecturer, Department of History, Yale University, 2003-5

Head of Graduate Studies, Institute of Ismaili Studies, 1999-2003

Lecturer and Research Associate, Institute of Ismaili Studies, 1997-9 Visiting Lecturer, Department of History, University of Chicago, 1996-7 Junior Fellow, Society of Fellows, Harvard University, 1993-6

Honorary Appointments

Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (since 2017)

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Senior Fellow, the School of Criticism and Theory, Cornell University (2018-2023) Board of Advisors, McKinnon Center for Global Affairs, Occidental College (since 2016) Institute for Public Knowledge Scholar, New York University (since 2009)

Monographs

Muslim Zion: Pakistan as a Political Idea, Harvard University Press (US and India) and Hurst (UK), 2013 The Impossible Indian: Gandhi and the Temptation of Violence, Harvard University Press (US and India) and Hurst (UK), 2012

The Terrorist in Search of Humanity: Militant Islam and Global Politics, Columbia University Press (US), Hurst (UK) and Cambridge University Press (India), 2008 Landscapes of the Jihad: Militancy, Morality, Modernity, Cornell University Press (US), Hurst (UK) and Foundation Books (India), 2005

Spanish translation by Edicions Bellaterra, Barcelona, 2007

Special issues, edited volumes and occasional papers

Islam After Liberalism (co-edited with Zaheer Kazmi) Oxford University Press (US) and Hurst (UK), 2017 “Gandhi, Hinduism and Humanity,” Contributions to Contemporary Knowledge Lecture, South Asian University (Delhi, 2017) Islamophobia: A Non-Concept (Oxford: Europaeum, 2014) “Itineraries of Self-Rule: Essays on the Centenary of Gandhi’s Hind Swaraj,” Public Culture, vol. 23, no. 2, Spring 2011 (co-edited with Ritu Birla) “The Bhagavad Gita and Modern Thought,” Modern Intellectual History, vol. 7, no. 2, July 2010 (co-edited with Shruti Kapila)

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Reprinted with a new introduction as Political Thought in Action: The Bhagavad Gita and Modern India (New Delhi: Cambridge University Press, 2013)

El Llenguatge de la Universalitat Musulmana/The Language of Muslim Universality (Barcelona: Breus, 2010) “Islamic Epistemologies,” Cultural Dynamics, vol. 13, no. 1, November 2001

Journal articles

“Iqbal’s Secularism,” forthcoming in a special issue I’m editing of Political Theology in 2018

“Indien: Nationstaat oder Zivilisation?” in Zeitschrift fur Weltgeschichte, vol. 17 no. 1, 2016, pp. 13-32. “The Universal and the Particular,” in Debate: In Response to Charlie, Religion and Society, vol. 6, 2015, pp. 173-5. “Politics without Paternity,” Seminar, vol. 662, October 2014, pp. 18-24 “Gandhi and the Sovereignty of Death,” Ex Oriente Lux: Rezeptionen und Exegesen als Traditionskritik, vol. 14, special issue, S. Dehghani and S. Horsch (eds.), Martyrdom in the Modern Middle East (Wurzburg: Ergon Verlag, 2014), pp. 91-102 “Tracking Islam in the Archive,” South Asian History and Culture, vol. 5 no. 3 (July 2014), pp. 267-91 “Politics after Al-Qaeda,” Philosophy and Social Criticism, vol. 40, no. 4-5, May-June 2014, pp. 431-8.

Reprinted in Seyla Benhabib and Volker Kaul (eds.), Towards New Democratic Imaginaries—Istanbul Seminars on Islam, Culture and Politics (Zurich: Springer, 2016), pp. 41-50.

“India in the Muslim imagination: cartography and landscape in 19th century Urdu literature,” Samaj, no. 10 (2014) (http://samaj.revues.org/3751) “The Idea of Ismailism,” Critical Muslim, vol. 10, April-June 2014, pp. 51-62 “Meaningless Revolutions,” Seminar, vol. 656, April 2014, pp. 45-50

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“Jinnah and the Theatre of Politics,” Asiatische Studien, vol. LXVII, no. 4, 2013, pp. 1179-1204 “Extraire le Bien du Mal: la Leçon du Mahabharata,” l’Histoire, no. 393, November 2013, p. 50

“Communities of Violence,” International Journal of Middle East Studies, 45, 2013, pp. 801-3 “Images Ungoverned,” (with David Joselit), in Ming-Yuen S. Ma and Erika Suderburg (eds.), Resolutions 3: Global Networks of Video (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2012), pp. 340-49 “Al-Qaeda and the Future of Politics,” Orient: Deutsche Zeitschrift für Politik, Wirtschaft und Kultur des Orients, no. 4, 2011, pp. 23-6

“Muslim Universality,” Postcolonial Studies, vol. 14, no. 2, June 2011, pp. 231-41 “The Paradox of Nonviolence,” Public Culture, vol. 23, no. 2, Spring 2011, pp. 269-274 “Guest Editors’ Letter,” Public Culture, vol. 23, no. 2, Spring 2011, pp. 265-8 (co-authored with Ritu Birla)

“Morality in the Shadow of Politics,” Modern Intellectual History, vol. 7, no. 2, July 2010 “The Bhagavad Gita and Modern Thought: Introduction,” Modern Intellectual History, vol. 7, no. 2, July 2010 (co-authored with Shruti Kapila) “Leibe deinen Feind: Militanter Islamismus,” Transit: Europaische Revue, vol. 39, summer 2010

Reprinted as “Loving the Enemy: Al-Qaeda’s Vision of the West,” Eurozine, 9 August 2010.

“Le Langage de l’Universalité Musulmane,” Diogène, vol. 2, no. 226, 2009, pp. 39-57 “The Mutiny to Come,” New Literary History, vol. 40, no. 2, spring 2009

“The Terrorist as Humanitarian,” Social Analysis, vol. 53, issue 1, spring 2009

“The Human Factor,” Third Frame, vol. 2, no. 2, April-June 2009

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“Red Mosque,” Public Culture, vol. 20 no. 1, winter 2008

Reprinted in Shahzad Bashir and Robert D. Crews (eds), Under the Drones: Modern Lives in the Afghanistan-Pakistan Borderlands, Harvard University Press, 2012

“A Demilitarised War,” Soundings, issue 36, “Politics and Markets”, summer 2007

“Apologetic Modernity,” Modern Intellectual History, vol. 4, no. 1, April 2007

“Global War on Terror as De-Militarization,” ISIM Review, issue 18, autumn 2006

Reprinted in Current, no. 493, June 2007

“Al-Qaeda, Spectre of Globalisation,” Soundings, issue 32, “Bare Life”, spring 2006

Reprinted in Journal of Religion and Society, Supplement Series 2 (2007)

“A Practice of Prejudice: Gandhi’s Politics of Friendship,” Subaltern Studies XII, 2005 “Imitatio Muhammadi: Khomeini and the Mystery of Citizenship,” Cultural Dynamics vol. 13, no. 3: November 2001 Editor’s introduction, Cultural Dynamics (special issue on Islamic Epistemologies) vol. 13, no. 1: November 2001 "Subject to Translation: Shakespeare, Swahili, Socialism," Postcolonial Studies vol. 3, no. 2: Fall 2000

“Hindu/Muslim/Indian,” Public Culture vol. 5, no.1: fall 1992

Bengali translation in Baromash (Calcutta, 1993)

Reprinted in Seminar (New Delhi, 1996) “Gender and the Politics of Space,” South Asia vol.14, no. 1: June 1991.

Reprinted in Forging Identities (New Delhi: Kali, 1993)

Book chapters

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“Fatal Love,” forthcoming in S. Kaviraj and K. Barkey, eds., Democracy and Religious Pluralism (Cambridge University Press, 2019) “The Problem of Muslim Universality”, forthcoming in E. Burke III, ed., Islam and World History: The Ventures of Marshall Hodgson (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2018) “From Minority to Nation,” forthcoming in A. Dubnow and L. Robson, eds., Partitions: A Transnational History of 20th Century Territorial Separatism (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2018) “Gandhi’s Great War,” in I. Talbot and R. Long, eds., India and the Great War (London: Routledge, 2018), pp. 191-206

“The Rediscovery of India,” in Making Sense of Modi’s India (Noida: Harper Collins, 2016), pp. 89-102. “Catching up with Oneself: Islam and the Representation of Humanity,” in H. Truper, D. Chakrabarty and S. Subrahmanyam (eds.), Historical Teleologies in the Modern World (London: Bloomsbury, 2015), pp. 301-20. “Islam in British Geopolitical Thought,” in David Motadel (ed.), Islam and Empire (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014) “Europe’s Muslim Passions,” in J. Chatterjee and D. Washbrook (eds.), Routledge Handbook of the South Asian Diaspora (London: Routledge, 2013) “The Equivocal History of a Muslim Reformation,” in F. and C. Osella (eds.), Islamic Reform in South Asia (Delhi: Cambridge University Press, 2013, pp. 3-25. “Torture at the Limit of Politics,” in M. Flynn and F. Fernandez Salek (eds.), Screening Torture: Media Representations of State Terror and Political Domination (New York: Columbia University Press, 2012), pp. 239-256 “Speaking of Violence,” in Om Prakash Dwivedi (ed.), The Other India: Narratives of Terror, Communalism and Violence (Newcastle Upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012), pp. 27-39

Reprinted in the Journal of Religion and Violence, vol. 1, no. 1 (Spring 2013), pp. 6-17

“Media and Martyrdom,” in Nicholas Mirzoeff (ed.), The Visual Culture Reader (New York: Routledge, 2013), pp. 220-32 (reprint of chapter 5 from Landscapes of the Jihad)

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“Preface,” in Alex Strick Van Linschoten and Felix Kuehn (eds.), Poetry of the Taliban (London and New York: Hurst/Columbia University Press, 2012), pp. 11-27

Republished online by the Indian Council on Global Relations (http://www.gatewayhouse.in/publication/analysis-amp-background/books/poetry-taliban), July 20, 2012

Partly republished online by Huffington Post (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/faisal-devji/the-poetry-of-the-taliban_b_1821359.html), August 22, 2012

“Attacking Mumbai,” in Jeevan Deol and Zaheer Kazmi (eds.), Contextualising Jihadi Thought (London and New York: Hurst/Columbia University Press, 2012), pp. 275-93

“The Idea of a Muslim Community: British India, 1857-1906,” in Marcel Maussen, Veit Bader and Annelies Moors (eds.), Colonial and Post-Colonial Governance of Islam: Continuities and Ruptures (Amsterdam University Press, 2011), pp. 111-132 “Apocalyptic Effects: Questions of Globalization and Islam,” in Handbook of Modernity in South Asia, ed. Saurabh Dube (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2011), pp. 124-140

Spanish translation in Otras Modernidades: Historias, Culturas, Identidades, Saurabh Dube and Ishita Banerjee (eds.), (Mexico City: El Colegio de Mexico), pp. 179-202

“Der Mythos der Gewalt,” in Ronald Grätz and Hans-Georg Knopp (eds.), Konfliktkulturen (Göttingen: Steidl Verlag, 2011), pp. 13-28 “Miniaturmalerei im Spiegel zeitgenössischer Künste,” in Taswir: Islamische Bildwelten und Moderne, Nicolaische Verlagsbuchhandlung, 2009 “Preface,” in Marc Van Grondelle, The Ismailis in the Colonial Era: Modernity, Empire and Islam, 1839-1969, Hurst and Co., 2009 “The Mountain Comes to Muhammad: Global Islam in Provincial Europe,” in Chris Rumford (ed.), The Sage Handbook of European Studies, 2009 “Illiberal Islam,” in Saurabh Dube (ed.), Enchantments of Modernity, Routledge, 2009

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Reprinted as “Muhammad Iqbal and the Crisis of Representation in British India” in Manu Bhagavan (ed.), Heterotopias: Nationalism and the Possibility of History in South Asia (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2010) Reprinted in F. Devji and Z. Kazmi (eds.), Islam After Liberalism. Hurst (UK) and Oxford (US)

“The ‘Arab’ in Global Militancy,” in Madawi al-Rasheed (ed.), Kingdom Without Borders: Saudi Expansion in the World, Hurst and Co., 2008 “The Minority as Political Form,” in Dipesh Chakrabarty, Rochona Majumdar and Andrew Sartori (eds.), From the Colonial to the Postcolonial: South Asia in Transition, Oxford University Press, 2007 “Comments on Rajeev Bhargava’s ‘The Distinctiveness of Indian Secularism’,” in T.N. Srinivasan (ed.), The Future of Secularism, Oxford University Press, 2007 “A Shadow Nation: The Making of Muslim India,” in Kevin Grant, Philippa Levine and Frank Trentmann (eds.), Beyond Sovereignty: Britain, Empire and Transnationalism, 1860-1950, Palgrave Macmillan, 2007, pp. 126-45 “Translated Pleasures,” Shahzia Sikander, The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, 1999

Book Reviews

Review of Iqbal Singh Sevea, The Political Philosophy of Muhamad Iqbal, in the Indian Economic and Social History Review, vo. 53, no. 2, 2016 “Young Fogeys: The Anachronism of New Scholarship on Pakistan,” review of Venkat Dhulipala’s A New Medina, in The Wire, 4 October 2015 (http://thewire.in/2015/10/04/young-fogeys-the-anachronism-of-new-scholarship-on-pakistan-12265/). “Readymade Ramayana,” review of Ramchandra Guha, Gandhi before India, in The Book Review, vol. XXXVIII, no. 2, February 2014 “Taking Shi’ism to the Masses,” review of Justin Jones, Shi’a Islam in Colonial India, in The Book Review, vol. XXXVI, no. 6, June 2012 Review of Nile Green, Bombay Islam, in the Journal of Islamic Studies, vol. 23, no. 3, September 2012

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Review of J. Majeed, Autobiography, Travel and Postnational Identity: Gandhi, Nehru and Iqbal, in The Indian Economic and Social History Review, vol. 45, no. 4, 2008 Review of D. Reetz, Islam in the Public Sphere and Y. Sikand, The Origins and Development of the Tablighi Jamaat, in The Indian Economic and Social History Review, vol. 44, no. 4, 2007 “Portrait of a Remarkable Community,” review of Mark-Anthony Falzon’s Cosmopolitan Connections: The Sindhi Diaspora, 1860-2000, in the Economic and Political Weekly, vol. XLI, no. 42, October 21-27, 2006 Review of Muzaffar Alam’s The Languages of Political Islam, in the International Journal of Middle East Studies, vol. 38, no.1, February 2006

Review Essays

“C.A. Bayly,” Past and Present, no. 237 (November 2017), pp. 3-12. “Age of sincerity,” Aeon Essays, April 17, 2017 (https://aeon.co/essays/beyond-right-or-wrong-beyond-fact-or-fake-lies-sincerity) “M.A. Jinnah: the founder of Muslim politics as a modern phenomenon,” WION, December 25, 2016 (http://www.wionews.com/south-asia/ma-jinnah-the-founder-of-muslim-politics-as-a-modern-phenomenon-10540).

“Against Muslim unity,” Aeon Essays, July 12, 2016 (https://aeon.co/essays/the-idea-of-unifying-islam-is-a-recent-invention-and-a-bad-one).

“Post-Interest Politics,” The Los Angeles Review of Books, Apr. 10, 2016

(https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/post-interest-politics/)

“ISIS: haunted by sovereignty,” Spiked Review, December 2015 (http://www.spiked-online.com/spiked-review/article/isis-haunted-by-sovereignty#.VmnVZdAjilI) “ISIS: A Life on the Surface,” Tank Magazine, vol. 8 issue 5, September 17, 2015 (http://tankmagazine.com/issue-64/features/faisal-devji).

“Militant poetics: what the Taliban’s verse says about them and us,” The Wire, June 13, 2015 (http://thewire.in/2015/06/13/militant-poetics-what-taliban-verse-says-about-us-and-them/)

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“The Anatomy of a Massacre,” The Los Angeles Review of Books, May 27, 2015 (http://lareviewofbooks.org/essay/anatomy-massacre/#.VWbNdQ6m2RU.facebook)

“The humanities after humanism,” Humanities Futures, Franklin Humanities Institute, Duke University, April 24, 2015 (https://humanitiesfutures.org/papers/humanities-after-humanism/)

“Mystical Assassinations,” The Los Angeles Review of Books, February 2, 2015 (http://lareviewofbooks.org/essay/mystical-assassinations)

“Obama in Egypt: Appealing to Islam,” The Salon, Johannesburg Workshop in Theory and Criticism (www.jwtc.mysquare.co.za), vol. 1, November 2009

“Attacking Mumbai,” The Immanent Frame, Social Sciences Research Council (http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/immanent_frame/2008/12/12/attacking-mumbai/), December 12, 2008 “De-militarization,” The Minerva Controversy, Social Sciences Research Council (www.ssrc.org), October 15, 2008 “Competing in Goodness: Khalid Sheikh Mohammed’s Testimony at Guantanamo,” Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory (www.jcrt.org), October 6, 2008

Newspaper and Magazine Articles

“The Art of Nameless Violence,” Los Angeles Review of Books, April 11, 2018 (https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-art-of-nameless-violence/).

“Our Obsession with Aung San Suu Kyi Blinds us to the Deeper Causes of the

Rohingya Tragedy,” Prospect Magazine, March 16, 2018

(https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/our-obsession-with-aung-san-suu-

kyi-blinds-us-to-the-deeper-causes-of-the-rohingya-tragedy).

“Life on the Surface,” Transmediale Journal, February 2018

“After the Talaq,” Open Magazine, Sep. 9, 2017

(http://www.openthemagazine.com/article/essay/after-the-talaq).

“Conversions From Islam in Europe and Beyond,” The New York Times, Aug. 15,

2017 (https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/15/opinion/islam-conversions.html).

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“Partition or Independence?” The Hindu, Aug. 15, 2017

(http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/lead/partition-or-

independence/article19493390.ece).

Hebrew translation in Haaretz, Aug. 27, 2017

(https://www.haaretz.co.il/blogs/sadna/1.4388845).

“Why Playing for Pity in the Face of Islamic State’s Atrocities is Counter-

Productive,” Prospect Magazine, Jul. 20, 2017

(https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/magazine/why-playing-for-pity-in-the-face-

of-islamic-states-atrocities-is-counter-productive)

“Is a Dalit-Muslim Alliance Possible?” The Hindu, Aug. 31, 2016

(http://m.thehindu.com/opinion/lead/is-a-dalitmuslim-alliance-

possible/article9051240.ece)

Reprinted as “Faisal Devji: Minority Problems”, in The Gulf Today, Sep.

4, 2016 (http://gulftoday.ae/portal/1b64c15a-0a33-4481-8a4a-

7ee9a0d395ac.aspx)

“Brexit—to leave or not to leave,” The Indian Economist, May 31, 2016 (http://theindianeconomist.com/brexit-leave-not-leave/)

“Gandhi and Ambedkar, a False Debate,” The Hindu, Feb. 22, 2016

(http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/lead/gandhi-and-ambedkar-a-false-

debate/article8264635.ece).

“An Indian History of Tolerance,” Open Magazine, Jan. 8, 2016

(http://www.openthemagazine.com/article/voices/an-indian-history-of-tolerance).

“Fighting Terrorism with the Big Boys,” The Hindu, Nov. 30, 2015 (http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/lead/fighting-terrorism-with-the-big-boys/article7930220.ece). “His Story of India,” The Indian Express, May 2, 2015 (http://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/his-story-of-india/)

“Nationalism as Antonym of Communalism,” The Hindu, December 19, 2014 (http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/lead/nationalism-as-antonym-of-communalism/article6704987.ece) “BJP and Congress: Different Mandates, Similar Challenges,” Hindustan Times, June 2, 2014 (http://www.hindustantimes.com/comment/analysis/bjp-and-congress-different-mandates-similar-challenges/article1-1225028.aspx)

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“Broad Brush,” Newsweek Pakistan, March 18, 2014 (http://newsweekpakistan.com/broad-brush/) “Changing Contours of Censorship,” The Hindu, February 24, 2014 (http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/lead/changing-contours-of-censorship/article5719569.ece) “Little Dictators: Nationalism, Censorship and the Making of a Canon for Pakistani Art,” Newsweek Pakistan, February 24, 2014 (http://newsweekpakistan.com/little-dictators/) “The Centre Cannot Hold,” The Hindu, January 7, 2014 (http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/lead/the-centre-cannot-hold/article5545995.ece) “Middle of the Road Mahatma,” The Indian Express, November 16, 2013 (http://www.indianexpress.com/news/middle-of--the-road--mahatma/1195529/) “Why Terror is Class Conflict,” The Economic Times, March 9, 2013 (http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/opinion/poke/me/Poke-me-Homegrown-terrorism-is-class-war-not-war-against-Indian-state-Do-you-agree/articleshow/18853608.cms) “Shades of Fatherhood,” The Week, January 28, 2013 (http://week.manoramaonline.com/cgi-bin/MMOnline.dll/portal/ep/theWeekContent.do?contentId=13320820&programId=1073755753&BV_ID=@@@) “Gandhi did Prefer Violence… of a Different Kind,” Tehelka Magazine, vol. 9, no. 45, November 10, 2012(http://www.tehelka.com/story_main54.asp?filename=hub101112Faisal.asp) “The Poetry of Al Qaida and the Taliban,” The New York Times and International Herald Tribune, May 13, 2012 (http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/13/opinion/sunday/militant-ideals-captured-in-poetry.html) “Humpty-Dumpty had a Great Fall,” The Economic Times, August 13, 2011 (http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/opinion/humpty-dumpty-had-a-great-fall/articleshow/9584193.cms) “Britain’s Muslim Empire and its Indian Future,” Seminar, September 2009 “Politics of the Borderland,” IWMPost, no. 101, April-August 2009

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“The Non-state Solution,” The Indian Express, May 26, 2009 “Trbuhozborceva budala,” Zarez, Zagreb, May 14, 2009 “The Virtuoso Terrorist,” The Indian Express, April 7, 2009 “Cruelty and Silence,” The Review, The National, Abu Dhabi, December 5, 2008 “Blood Brothers: Militant Islam and the West,” The World Today, December 2008 “Pakistan’s False Alternatives,” The Yale Politic, winter 2008

“Labor eines gregenzenlosen Kapitalismus,” Financial Times Deutschland, September 18, 2007 “Al-Qaeda: A Brand Name Now Being Franchised Globally,” The Daily Star, Beirut, April 13, 2007 “Welcome to Dubai, the Society that Capitalism Built,” Financial Times, January 5, 2007

“A Muslim Militancy Born in Modernity Not Mosques,” Financial Times, August 28, 2006 “Two Parallel Wars,” Times of India, August 3, 2006

“Islam Offers a Role Model of the Most Modern Kind,” Financial Times, February 13, 2006

Reprinted in Pausing to Reflect: On Europe’s Culture Wars, British Council, 2006

“Why Liberal Islam is not the Solution,” Financial Times, November 9, 2005 “Our Suicide Pact with Al Qaeda,” Los Angeles Times, September 11, 2005 “A War Fought for Impersonal Passions,” Financial Times, July 25, 2005 “Globalization and Apocalypse,” The Yale Politic, February 21, 2005

Blogs and Online Commentary

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“Refusing Islam in Dhaka,” The Wire, July 13, 2016 (http://thewire.in/50819/refusing-islam-in-dhaka/), also run in the Los Angeles Review of Books blog, July 14, 2016 (http://blog.lareviewofbooks.org/essays/refusing-islam-dhaka/)

Bengali translation published in Joban, Aug. 27, 2016

(http://jobanbd.com/ঢাকায়-জঙ্গি-হামলা-ঙ্গিযয়/).

“The world after Britain,” Hurst Blogs (http://www.hurstpublishers.com/world-britain), September 11, 2014

Republished as “New World Order” in Scroll.in (http://scroll.in/article/678853/Scotland-vote-shows-that-many-people-now-value-governance-over-politics), September 14, 2014

“Diary of a nobody,” Al-Jazeera America (http://america.aljazeera.com/opinions/2013/11/abu-zubaydah-diaryjihad.html), November 21, 2013

“Islamism as anti-politics,” Political Theology

(http://www.politicaltheology.com/blog/political-theology-and-islamic-

studies-symposium-islamism-as-anti-politics/), August 2, 2013

“The pleasures of surveillance,” Current Intelligence

(http://www.currentintelligence.net/analysis/2013/7/9/the-pleasures-of-

surveillance.html), July 9, 2013

“India’s carnival of values,” Current Intelligence

(http://www.currentintelligence.net/analysis/2013/2/25/indias-carnival-

of-values-at-the-jaipur-literature-festival.html), February 25, 2013

“The dictatorship of civil society in Tajikistan,” Current Intelligence

(http://www.currentintelligence.net/analysis/2012/11/27/the-

dictatorship-of-civil-society-in-tajikistan.html), November 27, 2012

“Politics dies in the Pamirs,” Current Intelligence

(http://www.currentintelligence.net/analysis/2012/8/24/politics-dies-in-

the-pamirs.html), August 24, 2012

“Islam as a global cult,” Current Intelligence

(http://www.currentintelligence.net/analysis/2012/5/31/islam-as-a-

global-cult.html), May 31, 2012

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“Rushdie Redux,” Current Intelligence

(http://www.currentintelligence.net/analysis/2012/2/16/rushdie-

redux.html), February 15, 2012

“Does Salman Rushdie Exist?” Current Intelligence

(http://www.currentintelligence.net/analysis/2012/1/30/does-salman-

rushdie-exist.html), January 29, 2012

“The Incalculable,” The Salon, Johannesburg Workshop in Theory and

Criticism (www.jwtc.mysquare.co.za), vol. 4, October 2011

“Categories of an Imagined Past,” Current Intelligence

(http://www.currentintelligence.net/columns/2011/8/15/categories-of-an-

imagined-past.html), August 13, 2011

“Metaphors for Our Time,” Current Intelligence

(http://www.currentintelligence.net/columns/2011/6/14/metaphors-for-

our-time.html), June 14, 2011

“American Narcissus,” Current Intelligence

(http://www.currentintelligence.net/columns/2011/5/11/american-

narcissus.html), May 11, 2011

“Libya: History Interrupted,” Current Intelligence

(http://www.currentintelligence.net/columns/2011/4/1/libya-history-

interrupted.html), April 1, 2011

“The New Mohammedans,” Current Intelligence

(http://www.currentintelligence.net/columns/2011/2/14/the-new-

mohammedans.html), February 14, 2011

“Islam’s Idolatrous Heart,” Current Intelligence

(http://www.currentintelligence.net/columns/2010/12/17/islams-

idolatrous-heart.html), December 17, 2010

“Barack Obama and the Temple of Doom,” Current Intelligence

(http://www.currentintelligence.net/columns/2010/11/4/barack-obama-

and-the-temple-of-doom.html), November 4, 2010

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“Kashmir and the Intifada,” Current Intelligence

(http://www.currentintelligence.net/columns/2010/10/1/kashmir-and-

the-intifada.html), October 1, 2010

“The Moderate Muslim’s Fate,” Current Intelligence

(http://www.currentintelligence.net/columns/2010/9/3/the-moderate-

muslims-fate.html), September 3, 2010

“Why Maoists Want Arundhati Roy,” Comment is Free Blog, The Guardian

(http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/mar/09/india-maoists-

arundhati-roy), March 9, 2010

“ Mumbai’s Attacks Remain Unpoliticised,” Comment is Free Blog, The

Guardian

(http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/libertycentral/2009/nov/26/

mumbai-attacks-unpoliticised-india), November 26, 2009

Reprinted as “Violence Unpoliticised” in Gulf News, November 28,

2009

“Pakistan, the Privatized State,” Comment is Free Blog, The Guardian (http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/oct/16/pakistan-government-militants), October 17, 2009

“Politics of the Borderland,” Bitterlemons (www.bitterlemons-international.org), ed. 45, vol. 5, December 6, 2007 “The Ventriloquist,” Spiked Online (www.spiked-online.com), October 19, 2007 “Muslim Liberals: Epistles of Moderation,” Open Democracy (www.opendemocracy.net), October 18, 2007

“White Lies in the Red Mosque,” Bitterlemons (www.bitterlemons-international.org), ed. 29, vol. 5, July 26, 2007 “Christendom’s Muslim Midwife,” Britannica Blog (www.blogs.britannica.com), May 14-15, 2007 “Dubai Cosmopolis,” Open Democracy (www.opendemocracy.net), April 19, 2007

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“Terrorist Democracy: The ‘Islam Roadshow’,” Britannica Blog (www.blogs.britannica.com), April 17, 2007 “The Globalization of Militancy,” Britannica Blog (www.blogs.britannica.com), April 10, 2007 “The Globalization of Islam,” Bitterlemons (www.bitterlemons-international.org), ed. 13, vol. 5, March 29, 2007 “Between Pope and Prophet,” Open Democracy (www.opendemocracy.net), September 25, 2006 “Back to the Future: The Cartoons, Liberalism and Global Islam,” Open Democracy (www.opendemocracy.net), April 13, 2006 “Osama bin Laden’s Message to the World,” Open Democracy (www.opendemocracy.net), December 21, 2005 “Spectral Brothers: Al-Qaeda’s World-Wide Web,” Open Democracy (www.opendemocracy.net), August 19, 2005

Editorial and advisory boards

Modern Intellectual History Humanity South Asian History and Culture Comparative Studies in South Asia, Africa and the Middle East South Asia Research Journal of Critical Globalisation Studies International Journal of Gandhi Studies Journal of Religion and Violence The Thinker Cambridge University Press (The Global Middle East series) Stanford University Press (South Asia in Motion series)

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European Institutes of Advanced Studies (assessor) Royal Society of New Zealand (assessor) Princeton Institute of Advanced Studies (assessor) Conflicts Forum Taliban Sources Project Nominating Committee member of the Haring Fellowship in Art and Activism, Bard College

Grants and scholarships

Co-investigator (with Adrian Gregory) for an £850,000 AHRC grant on religion and the First World War, including conferences, two post-doctoral fellowships and a co-authored book, 2016-19 £20,000 from the Fell Fund, The Marchioness of Winchester Trust, TORCH, and the Radhakrishnan Bequest for a two-day conference and art exhibition at the Ashmolean Museum and Courtauld Institute of Art to mark the 70th anniversary of India and Pakistan’s independence, Oct 12-13, 2017 £10,000 from the Marchioness of Winchester Trust for a conference on free expression in India at St. Antony’s College, May 31, 2013 Von Holst Prize, University of Chicago Department of History, 1993 Andrew Mellon Fellow, University of Chicago, 1991-2 Junior Fellow, American Institute of Indian Studies, 1990-1

Unendowed Fellowship, University of Chicago, 1986-90 Aga Khan Foundation International Scholar, 1986-9

Conferences organized

The Art of Independence: Visions of the Future in India and Pakistan, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, and Courtauld Institute of Art, London, October 12-13, 2017 An Intellectual History for Pakistan, St. Antony’s College, Oxford, March 1, 2016

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Benares, Bayly and the Making of World History, Jnana-Pravaha, Varanasi, January 7-8, 2015 A Symposium on India’s Politics of Free Expression, The Marchioness of Winchester Lectures, St. Antony’s College, Oxford, May 31, 2013 Migrants in and After Empire: India, Africa and the Middle East, Commonwealth History Conference, St. Antony’s College, Oxford, May 14, 2010

Hind Swaraj: A Transnational History, University of the Witwatersrand, August 16-17, 2009 Politics in Action: the Bhagavad Gita in Modern Times, The New School, June 6-7, 2008 Non-Violence: The Social Life of a Concept, The New School, May 5, 2006

Gandhi: The Politics of Modernity, Whitney Humanities Centre, Yale University, April 5, 2004 Perspectives in Islamic Studies, Institute of Ismaili Studies, August 22-4, 1998 The First Annual W.E.B. Du Bois Graduate Society Spring Conference, A Contemporary Notion of Citizenship: Race, Class, and Gender in American Life, Harvard University, April 8, 1995 The War Within: A One-Day Symposium on Religious Violence in India, University of Chicago, January 30, 1992

Named lectures and keynote addresses

“Gandhi, Hinduism and Humanity,” Contributions to Contemporary Knowledge Lecture, Faculty of Social Sciences and Department of Sociology, South Asian University, Delhi, October 26, 2017 “Barrister Gandhi Takes the Stand,” special lecture commemorating the 70th anniversary of India’s independence and the UK-India Year of Culture, The Honourable Society of the Inner Temple, October 2, 2017 “The Dynastic Idea and Critique of Politics in Modern Islam,” keynote address at a conference on The Modern Invention of ‘Dynasty’: A Global Intellectual History, 1500-2000, Birmingham Research Institute for History and Cultures at the University of Birmingham, September 22, 2017

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“Gandhi’s Great War,” The Tiwari Annual Lecture, The University of Indiana, Bloomington, September 12, 2017 “Iqbal as a Critic of Secularism,” Dr. and Mrs. Ookerjee Memorial Lecture, The Wilson College, Mumbai, December 19, 2016 “Ambedkar’s Politics and the Idea of Democracy without Nationalism,” keynote address at the conference on Democracy Against Civility? Majoritarian Politeness and Subaltern Dissent in Contemporary India, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, December 15, 2016 “The Mahatma at War: How India Redefined the First Global Conflict.” The 5th Professor Dhirendra Narain Endowment Lecture, The Asiatic Society of Mumbai, December 14, 2016 “The Inheritance of ISIS,” Balvant Parekh Distinguished Lecture, Balvant Parekh Centre for General Semantics and Other Human Sciences, Vadodara, December 6, 2016 “Fatal Love: Intimacy and Violence in Indian Political Thought,” Parekh Lecture, School of Politics, Philosophy and International Studies, University of Hull, November 13, 2015 “Catching up with Oneself: Islam and the Representation of Humanity,” keynote address at the conference on Wild Spaces and Islamic Cosmopolitanism in Asia, Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore, January 14, 2015 “Politics in Action: Gandhi, the Gita and Modern Times,” the Majewski Lecture, Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies, November 4, 2013

“Muslim Zion,” The Carol A. Breckenridge Memorial Lecture, Department of History, The New School for Social Research, New York, October 7, 2013

“Europe’s Muslim Passions,” Europaeum Lecture, the Graduate Institute, Geneva, May 27, 2013 “Pakistan as a Political Idea,” keynote lecture at the Worlds of South Asia conference, Centre for Global South Asian Studies, University of Copenhagen, September 17, 2012 “Gandhi on the Virtues of Civil War,” the Mary Keatinge Das Lecture, Southern Asia Institute, Columbia University, April 9, 2012

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“Jinnah and the Making of Pakistan,” the Virani Lectures in Islamic Studies, University of British Columbia, March 28, 2012 “Islam, Politics and the Making of Pakistan,” John Park Young Distinguished Speaker, Occidental College, March 14, 2011 “El Futur de l’Islam”, Pensar el Futur, Centre for Contemporary Culture, Barcelona, February 1, 2010 “The Guilt of Being Still Alive”, keynote address at the Annual Conference of the Global Studies Association, Royal Holloway, September 2, 2009 “Muslim Zion: Jinnah and the Making of Pakistan”, Kingsley Martin Memorial Lecture, University of Cambridge, May 27, 2009 “Intimate Enemies: Osama bin Laden’s Vision of the West”, Royal Institute of International Affairs, Chatham House, November 26, 2008 “The Militant and the Mahatma”, Institute of Contemporary Art, London, February 11, 2008

“Insulting the Prophet”, keynote address at a conference on The Politics of Faith, Christian Michelsen Institute, Bergen, November 7, 2006 “The Terrorist in Search of Humanity”, keynote address at a conference on Vital Matters, the University of Bergen, November 4, 2006 “The Ethics of Al-Qaeda”, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, London, July 26, 2006

“Faisal Devji on the Ethic of Al-Qaeda”, Institute of Contemporary Art, London, July 24, 2006

Recent interviews and broadcasts 25 October 2017, interview with CTV Canada on protests in Pakistan

(http://www.ctvnews.ca/video?clipId=1270746).

17 October 2017, interview with the LSE about a lecture on Gandhi at the Inner

Temple (http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/southasia/2017/10/16/while-gandhis-thought-can-

at-times-seem-paradoxical-it-had-an-extraordinary-resonance-among-indians-and-

indeed-many-others-during-his-own-lifetime-dr-faisal-devji/).

12 August 2017, quoted in Jeff Kingston, “The Unfinished Business of Indian

Partition,” The Japan Times

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(http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/08/12/commentary/unfinished-

business-indian-partition/#.WY_NGBTEulI).

21 June 2017, interviewed for the BBC Radio 3 episode of “Free Thinking” on

terrorism (http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08v8y00#play).

11 May 2016, interviewed for Ehtesham Shaheed, “’Trump of the East’ and West:

the rise of controversial political figures,” in Al-Arabiya English

(http://english.alarabiya.net/en/perspective/analysis/2016/05/11/-Trump-of-the-

East-and-the-West-Products-of-same-circumstances.html).

1 May 2016, interviewed on the subject of Gandhi and caste for Al-Mayadeen TV

(http://www.almayadeen.net/programs/episode/14325/-النظام-الطبقي-في-الهند-بين-االمس

.(-واليوم-وماذا-قال-المهاتما

19 April 2016, interviewed for a discussion on “Are human rights really

universal?” on BBC Radio 4 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07756bn).

3 April 2016, cited in “The ideal country: Jinnah’s vision of state was a contract

among communities,” in the Express Tribune

(http://tribune.com.pk/story/1077710/the-ideal-country-jinnahs-vision-of-state-

was-a-contract-among-communities/); and in “Muslim political thought: ‘Sir

Sayid strived for social change’” (http://tribune.com.pk/story/1077713/muslim-

political-thought-sir-syed-strived-for-social-change/).

26 March 2016, interviewed in “Gandhi more than a cuddly icon,” The Statesman,

(http://www.thestatesman.com/news/opinion/gandhi-more-than-a-cuddly-

icon/132256.html). 9 November 2015, cited in “India going through great democratic churning: historian”, in Business Standard (http://www.business-standard.com/article/pti-stories/india-going-through-great-democratic-churning-historian-115110900430_1.html); “India going through great democratic churning: Faisal Devji”, in The Hindu (http://www.thehindu.com/news/india-going-through-great-democratic-churning-historian/article7861395.ece); “India going through great democratic churning”, MSN News (http://www.msn.com/en-in/news/other/india-going-through-great-democratic-churning-historian/ar-CC8jXB); ”India going through great democratic churning”, Press Trust of India (http://www.ptinews.com/news/6718569_-India-going-through-great-democratic-churning-.html). 13 June 2015, “Pakistan has been made into an internal problem for India—Faisal Devji” Tehelka (http://www.tehelka.com/pakistan-has-been-made-into-an-internal-problem-for-india-faisal-devji/?singlepage=1)

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21 December 2014, interviewed for “Slew of bad news with Islamic prefix: what drove the Bengaluru techie and Sydney hostage taker?” Economic Times (http://m.economictimes.com/news/international/world-news/slew-of-bad-news-with-islamic-prefix-what-drove-the-bengaluru-techie-sydney-hostage-taker/articleshow/45586900.cms)

28 September 2014, interviewed on the Indian prime minister’s visit to the US for the Voice of Russia 9 July 2014, producer and presenter of an Al-Jazeera English documentary, Disunited Kingdom (http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/peopleandpower/2014/07/disunited-kingdom-201471083219774686.html) 31 January 2014, interviewed for The Ideas that Make Us on BBC Radio 4 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03skzgv) 5 January 2014, two-part interview on Gandhi with Al-Mayadeen TV (http://www.almayadeen.net/ar/Programs/Episode/KrDLKSMb3EGepaKqAUScyQ/1/2014-01-05-الهندي-المستحيل-غاندي-وإغراء-العنف) (http://www.almayadeen.net/ar/Programs/Episode/KrDLKSMb3EGepaKqAUScyQ/2/2014-01-05-الهندي-المستحيل-غاندي-وإغراء-العنف) 13 September 2013, “Gandhi’s lessons for al-Qaeda”, Mail and Guardian, Johannesburg (http://mg.co.za/article/2013-09-12-gandhis-lessons-for-al-qaeda) 4 September 2013, interview on globalization and violence on South Africa FM, Johannesburg

31 August 2013, my work on Tajikistan reported on “The Aga Khan’s tightrope walk in Tajikistan,” Al-Jazeera (http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2013/08/2013828121815583542.html) 26 August 2013, “Pak formed on rejection of blood & soil role in nationalism: Faisal Devji, Oxford University”, Economic Times (http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/opinion/interviews/pak-formed-on-rejection-of-blood-soil-role-in-nationalism-faisal-devji-oxford-university/articleshow/22058805.cms) 11 January 2013, interview on global forms of Muslim protest in Ei Samay, Kolkata 4 October 2012, “The future of Al-Qaeda”, BBC Radio 3, Nightwaves

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6 September 2012, “Deep dive: the Aga Khan in Tajikistan”, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (http://www.rferl.org/content/transmission-deep-dive-tajikistan-aga-khan/24700508.html?nocache=1) 15 August 2012, “Faisal Devji: Mahatma Gandhi remains indispensable for Indian politics”, Times of India 20 July 2012, interviewed for The Take Away, WNYC New York, on Taliban poetry 16 June 2012, interviewed for “The soul of the Taliban” in Times of India, Crest Edition 17 October 2011, interviewed for “Our selective archive” in Outlook India 16 May 2011, interviewed for “The Sheikh’s story to tell” in Outlook, New Delhi 8 May 2011, “El Islam y Occidente después de Osama bin Laden”, interview in El Mercurio, Santiago de Chile 7 May 2011, “Jihadists will increasingly target peaceful, Mumbai-like cities” interview in the Economic Times, New Delhi 2 March 2011, Nightwaves, BBC Radio 3 31 February 2011, Nightwaves, BBC Radio 3 22 November 2010, interviewed for “India: Great Power status?” in Outlook India 11 September 2010, “Plötzlich war der Islam das Problem,” interview in the Wiener Zeitung 11 June 2010, “Ist al-Qaida ein humanitärer Verein?” interview in Die Presse, Vienna 24 May 2010, interviewed for “His jehad is his very own,” Outlook India 24 May 2010, interviewed for “Osama, the Che of Islam?” Outlook India 19 February 2010, In Our Time, BBC Radio 4 7 February 2010, “Bin Laden y Al Qaeda ya se están diluyendo,” interview in La Vanguardia, Barcelona

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20 April 2009, The Forum, BBC World Service